Walter Roberson

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How do position coordinates work on a subplot?
insertText() and insertShape() work with array coordinates, and those are not necessarily the same as axes data coordinates. An ...

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How to plot a DE
You need specific boundary conditions in order to plot, and specific w_n value. syms x_d(t_d) syms w_n ode = diff(x_d,t_d,2)+...

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Compare on plots variables from two .mat files with same variables
f1 = load('FirstName.mat'); f2 = load('SecondName.mat'); plot(f1.X, f1.Y, 'b', f2.X, f2.Y, 'k--'); legend({'first file', 'se...

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How to import a lot of .blf data files?
dinfo = dir('2020*.blf'); filenames = {dinfo.name}; numfiles = length(filenames); contents = cell(numfiles,1); for K = 1 : n...

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Undefined function or variable 'I2Cdev'.
You are using arduino. The arduino interface does not use ic2dev . See https://www.mathworks.com/help/supportpkg/arduinoio/examp...

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xAxis of plot starts when no data is available
MATLAB is trying for "nice" tick marks. With the datetime values you are giving it, everything except December 31 2019 fits in n...

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infinite series with loop in MATLAB
syms z I k real F = symsum((-z*I)^k/(k*factorial(k)), k, 1, inf) However, examine the behavior when k = 0, the lower bound fro...

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Fsolve with Loop and to store variable
You are required to iterate through given x(4) values. So start solving the equations in terms of x(4) syms x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 ...

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3D plot matlab from X Y Z data and integrating a slice function
If you have a regular grid of x y z points, then pull out the columns and reshape() and possibly permute() into an appropriate s...

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how can convert time domain to frequency domain
See fft and in particular the first example to see how to label the frequency bins

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Concatenate string arrays of different sizes
It is an error in the code when f is a column vector. It would work if f were a row vector. However it seems more likely that yo...

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Why i am getting error in printing array?
print() is for sending graphics to the printer or to a file. You probably want disp()

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Please explain Matlab's naming convention for odepq
p is the order of the calculation used to predict the solution, and q is the order of the calculation used for the error estimat...

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Is it possible to get the boundary size of an object in an image same after rotation of the image by a particular angle?
Img =imread('square.bmp'); Imgg = rgb2gray(Img); angles = 0:-10:-90; nang = length(angles); fignums = [1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1...

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Creating noise in an image unconventionally
x = rand(size(Beam)) < 0.2; %logical array! z = Beam; n = rand(1,nnz(x)) * 250; z(x) = n;

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How to find out a smallest sub-matrix B from a sparse matrix A which has the equal rank and # of non-zero columns?
In general there is no solution. Every dense matrix is also a spare matrix. An NxN full-rank dense matrix might happen to hav...

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How can I create an array to hold the unpicked values from a randsample function?
ridx = randperm(length(YourVector)); selected = YourVector(1:end/2); unselected = YourVector(end/2+1:end);

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how to fix "unrecognized table variable name" error?
imds = imageDatastore('C:\Users\Muhammad Sanwal\Desktop\COMSATS\The 9th Semester (FA20)\FYP pt 1\MIO-TCD-Localization\train\0000...

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How to sort out the dead nodes in a WSN and exclude them from the rest of the operations and calculations in the MATLAB code?
dists(i,:) = []; % Removing the row that contains the dead node in the distances array dists was created as a symm...

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Error in ode45 (line 115)
ode45 can never be used for symbolic expressions. See dsolve() instead, or see the first example for odeFunction

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Hi all! Could you please help me understand this piece of code here?
It initializes an i2c register on the arduino. It loops indefinitely. Each cycle it reads 14 bytes of data that are in big-Endia...

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what to do when i run the matlab coding it show "configuremulticast" is supported only on "windows in the command window
you are correct that new function is only available for windows. https://www.mathworks.com/help/instrument/udpport.configure...

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Where do I get the dlnode.m function for creating linked lists?
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_oop/example-implementing-linked-lists.html#brik0u3 Just below the "Example Code" ...

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All fixed points of function
syms x f(x) = cos(x) - 0.07 * x^2; fplot([f(x)-x,0], [-15 15]) Now you can vpasolve() giving a starting point near a...

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Disable function if called from livescript
mfilename fullpath will be in a temporary directory if you are using livescript, and the file name itself will start with "Live...

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Unable to perform assignment because the left and right sides have a different number of elements.
dt = 0.01; i0 = 1; i(1) = i0; i = (1:dt:21); Note that overwrites all of i It is not recommended to use i as a variable nam...

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Operands to the || and && operators must be convertible to logical scalar values.
grains{b}=sum(x_array{b}>ymin) && (x_array{b}<ymax) Your sum() ends too early. sum(condition & condition)

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Why Would fplot(f) and fplot(vpa(f)) Show Different Results?
fplot problems. Look at this: format long g syms y1 fu1 = str2sym("piecewise(y1 < 0, 0, 0 <= y1, -(25353012004564588029934064...

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COMPARE CELLS VIA A LOOP
%comparison filename1 = 'test.xlsx'; [d1,tex]= xlsread(filename1); NAME1=tex(:,1); k1 = cellfun(@(C) C(1), NAME1); ...

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Getting Empty sym: 0-by-1 when using solve function.
There is no closed-form solution to that. You will not even get closed form solutions if you substitute in constants for all of...

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